Interpreting across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy

Published by Princeton University Press 1988

Interpreting across Boundaries

New Essays in Comparative Philosophy

Edited by: Gerald James Larson and Eliot Deutsch

Volume 889 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859276

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This volume is a "state-of-the-art" assessment of comparative philosophy written by some of the leading practitioners of the field. While its primary focus is on gaining methodological clarity regarding the comparative enterprise of "interpreting across boundaries," the book also contains new substantive essays on Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and European thought. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, William Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, A. S. Cua, Eliot Deutsch, Charles Hartshorne, Daya Krishna, Gerald James Larson, Sengaku Mayeda, Hajime Nakamura, Raimundo Panikkar, Karl H. Potter, Henry Rosemont, Jr., Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Ninian Smart, Fritz Staal, and Frederick J. Streng.

Comparative or cross-cultural philosophy can be seen as a relative newcomer to the field of philosophy. It has its antecedents in the emergence of comparative studies in nineteenth-century European intellectual history, as well as in the sequence of East-West Philosophers' Conferences at the University of Hawaii, which began in 1939. This book will prove to be of great significance in helping to define a field that is only now becoming fully self-conscious, methodologically and substantively, about its role and function in the larger enterprises of philosophy and comparative studies.

Originally published in 1988.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The “Age-Old Distinction Between the Same and the Other” Gerald James Larson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Metaphor as Key to Understanding the Thought of Other Speech Communities Karl H. Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Against Relativism Henry Rosemont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Comparative Philosophy: What It Is and What It Ought to Be Daya Krishna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Contextual Fallacy Ben-Ami Scharfstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Śaṅkara, Nāgārjuna, and Fa Tsang, with Some Western Analogues Charles Hartshorne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
What Is Comparative Philosophy Comparing? Raimundo Panikkar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
The Meaning of the Terms ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Religion’ in Various Traditions Hajime Nakamura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Mechanisms of Self-Deception and True Awareness According to C. G. Jung and the Eight- Thousand-Line Perfection of Wisdom Sutra Frederick J. Streng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Knowledge and the Tradition Text in Indian Philosophy Eliot Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Analogy of Meaning and the Tasks of Comparative Philosophy Ninian Smart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Śaṅkara and Nārāyana Guru Sengaku Mayeda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Is There Philosophy in Asia? Frits Staal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chu Hsi and World Philosophy Wing-Tsit Chan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Confucius and the Ontology of Knowing Roger T. Ames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions A. S. Cua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Neoconfucianism as Traditional and Modern Wm. Theodore De Bary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

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